internet explorer

2 definitions found

internet explorer - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Internet Explorer
      n 1: a commercial browser [syn: Internet Explorer, Explorer,
           IE]

internet explorer - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Internet Explorer
  IE
  MSIE
  
     <World-Wide Web> (IE, MSIE) Microsoft's free World-Wide Web
      browser for Microsoft Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT
     , and Macintosh.  Internet Explorer is the main rival to
     Netscape Navigator (which runs on many more platforms).
     Both support the same core features and offer incompatible
     extensions.
  
     Microsoft combined later versions of IE with their file system
      browser, "Explorer" and bundled it with Windows 95
     in an attempt to use their dominance of the desktop
     operating system market to force users to abandon Netscape's
     browser, which they perceived as a potential threat.  This,
     and other dubious business moves, became the subject of a US
     Department of Justice antitrust trial in late 1998/early 1999.
  
     (http://microsoft.com/ie/).
  
     (1999-01-31)